- As it is in the history of our planet and species, geography is the main character in the fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson.
- In his magisterial Mars trilogy, it is the Red Planet itself that defines the arcs of the human settlers who come to make their way on an unforgiving world.
- If we live in the time of the hyperobject — to use the philosopher Timothy Morton’s term for the vast subjects that define the boundaries in which we live — only Robinson has the hyperimagination to match it.
The novelist Kim Stanley Robinson’s vision roves from the deep past to the distant future
